What have they to do with the proposal which I make you? I must have your answer! Will you devote yourself, and sacrifice all to this great end, and be my friend of friends, forever? In Heavens name, Hollingsworth, cried I, getting angry, and glad to be angry, because so only was it possible to oppose his tremendous concentrativeness and indomitable will, cannot you conceive that a man may wish well to the world, and struggle for its good, on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down? And will you cast off a friend, for no unworthiness, but merely because he stands upon his right, as an individual being, and looks at matters through his own optics, instead of yours? Be with me, said Hollingsworth, or be against me! There is no third choice for you. Take this, then, as my decision, I answered. I doubt the wisdom of your scheme. Furthermore, I greatly fear that the methods, by which you allow yourself to pursue it, are such as cannot stand the scrutiny of an unblessed conscience. —Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance (1852)
Posted on: Wed, 14 May 2014 04:11:54 +0000
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